Character Analysis: Daughter By Erskine Preston Caldwell

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Erskine Caldwell "Daughter" Analysis Erskine Preston Caldwell (December 17, 1903 - April 11, 1987) was an American author. His writings about poverty, racism and social problems in his native South like the novels Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre won him critical acclaim, but they also made him controversial among fellow Southerners of the time who felt he was deprecating the people of the region. We also meet the problem of the racism in his short story "Daughter". This story touches post slavery period and describes us conditions of life of poor black people of that time. We noticed that the story under analysis narrated from the third person. We can assume that the narrator was the witness of these events because he knows the names of the heroes and tells us with accuracy about it. Also we can assume that he took part in this story. The story begins with exposition and it's little bit mislead the reader but at the same time…show more content…
The story starts with exposition which precedes the introduction but neither of those don't tell us anything about the main point. The author is presented as an observer of everything that had happened. He seems to know everything but he doesn't tell us anything about the main point of the story. He lets us guess it. In the beginning when reading the story we have no clue about what is going to happen next, in fact we get to know about the ^^ ^ ^y problem of this story only in the very middle of the text, even little bit later. And /^9!**-only in the end we get the complete understanding of the authors point of view. Interesting to note, the author doesn't try to make the reader follow one side or another. He lets us chose for ourselves. Thought by the end he sets us for a good attitude and even sympathy towards Jim. The situation with Jim creates a constantly increasing tension and creates the effect of an eyewitness, unfamiliar with the incident in its natural order of deployment for the
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